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Have a bigger say in European policy-making: Commission extends public consultations to 12 weeks and creates new 'alert service'

Brussels, 3 January 2012 - From 1 January, the European Commission gives citizens, businesses and non-governmental organisations at least 12 weeks to comment on plans for new policies and legislation, compared to 8 weeks previously. This will make it easier for them to get involved in EU policy-making at an early stage. The Commission has also introduced an alert service for upcoming initiatives: Organisations that sign up for the Transparency

Register http://europa.eu/transparency-register/index_en.htm, can subscribe to this alert service to get early information on the roadmaps for new initiatives in their fields of interest about one year before there adoption.

Full text of press release

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/1&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

More information

See ongoing public consultations http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ (Your voice in Europe)

See upcoming Commission initiatives http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/planned_ia/planned_ia_en.htm (Roadmaps)

Sign up for the Roadmap alert service http://europa.eu/transparency-register/index_en.htm (Transparency Register)